דֶּ֫מַע
juice
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1831 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
About this entry
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דמע — transliterated demaʻ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “juice.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Exodus. It occurs only once, in Exodus 22:29. Related forms include דמע and דמעה. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1831 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Liquors 1×
- American Standard Version: Outflow 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or vats 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Or your presses 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1831 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- juice
Word origin
[ דֶּ֫מַע ] n.[m.] (weeping, trickling) juice, i.e. wine or (&) oil Ex 22:28
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דמע (dâmaʻ) (H1830) — to weep.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּמַע
- (b. h.) to flow, shed tears. Tosef. Bekh. IV, 4 אם … דוֹמַעַת if his eye is tearing. Bekh. 44ᵃ, v. דָּלַף. [Sifré Deut. 157 עד שיהו … דומעות, read: שזלגו עיניו דְּמָעוֹת; v. Sot. VII, 8.]
- (denom. of דֶּמַע II) to make a thing, otherwise exempt, subject to the law of T’rumah, to mix secular grain, wine, oil &c. with T’rumah in proportions sufficient to make the whole prohibited to non-priests; in gen. to mix secular with sacred things. Orl. II, 4; 6 המְדַמֵּעַ; a. fr.—Ter. III, 1 אינה מְדַמַּעַת וכ׳ does not make Dema by itself (if mixed with secular fruits). Ib. 2 אינה מְדַמֵּעֲתָן does not make them dema; מְדַמְּעוֹת כקטנה וכ׳ make dema, the smallest of the two being considered as an admixture; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְדוּמָּע. Ib. V, 6 אין המדומע מדמע וכ׳ that which became subject to the law of T’rumah through an admixture, can affect a second mixture only in proportion, i.e. according to the quantity of real T’rumah contained therein. Ḥag. III, 4 wine jars or oil jars המְדוּמָּעוֹת which have been mixed up; expl. ib. 25ᵇ מד׳ דקדש containing liquids, a portion of which was designated for libations.
- to become Dema through mixture. Ter. l. c. Nidd. 46ᵇ עיסה שנִדְמְעָה if a sufficient quantity of T’rumah has been put in a dough to make it forbidden to non-priests; a. e.
דְּמַע
- to tear, drip. Targ. Jer. XIII, 17 (some ed. דַמַּע … Pa.). Targ. Lam. II, 18.
דֶּמַע I
- preced.)
- 1. tear, weeping. Men. 30ᵃ; B. Bath. 15ᵃ Moses wrote בד׳ (Ms. M. בדְמָעוֹת) with tears (so that he could not speak).—Pl., v. דִּמְעָה
דֶּמַע II
- fruits, whence (sub. רֵאשִׁית, מַתְּנַת, v. Ex. XXII, 28) the priest’s share of the produces, T’rumah. Mekh. Mishp. s. 19; Yalk. Ex. 351 T’rumah has three names, Reshith, T’rumah וד׳ and Dema; Tem. 4ᵃ. Ohol. XVI, 4 אוכל בדִמְעוֹ he may partake of his priestly share. Tosef. Ter. X, 16 בית הד׳ place in the barn designated for T’rumah. e.g. Exodus 22:28
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
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